Laugh Back At The Pain

[Verse 1]
Pain cracked first
Got the joke in early
Called me fragile
Like that script could hurt me
I was on the floor
Staring at the ceiling fan slow
Thinking, if this is the show
Might as well steal it
Bills on the table
Heart like broken cable
Static in my chest
Still I pull up to the fable
Tell the world I’m fine
With a chipped-tooth grin
If misery wanna roast me
I’ma roast it again (hey)
[Chorus]
I laugh because the pain laughed at me first
It clownin’ on my name
So I clown it in a verse
You got jokes, life?
We can trade, line for line
I just laugh back
Till the laugh sound mine
I laugh because the pain laughed at me first
You throwing all that hurt
Watch me flip it to a word
You got teeth, night?
I got teeth in my rhyme
I just laugh back
Till the laugh sound mine
[Verse 2]
Doctor said “rest”
Boss said “grind harder”
Mama said “pray”
Devil said “why bother?”
Everybody talking
Like they know my scenes
But I’m the one mopping
Up behind the dream
So I turn that tremor
To a running gag
Carry my trauma
Like a tattered flag
If the ache got timing
And a twisted sense of grace
I match it on the beat
Laugh right in its face (oh yeah)
[Bridge]
What else can you do
When the hurt got humor?
When the wound play wise
Like a late-night rumor?
You match it
You meet it
On its own cold terms
Let it roast you raw
Then you make those words
[Chorus]
I laugh because the pain laughed at me first
It clownin’ on my name
So I clown it in a verse
You got jokes, life?
We can trade, line for line
I just laugh back
Till the laugh sound mine
I laugh because the pain laughed at me first
You throwing all that hurt
Watch me flip it to a word
You got teeth, night?
I got teeth in my rhyme
I just laugh back
Till the laugh sound mine

rap, Blues-rap-trance hybrid over a looping minor-key riff and deep sub bass; verses ride a swung, head-nod pocket with gritted, story-driven bars, then dissolve into hypnotic, reverb-soaked trance chords on the hook. Gradual build in synth arps and backing chants each chorus, then strip to just vocal and bass in the bridge before a final, cathartic hook. Male vocals with raspy lead and ghostly harmonies on key phrases., trance, blues